Harold E. Brooks

13.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
123 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Harold E. Brooks is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold E. Brooks has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Atmospheric Science, 107 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Harold E. Brooks's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (110 papers), Climate variability and models (86 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (32 papers). Harold E. Brooks is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (110 papers), Climate variability and models (86 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (32 papers). Harold E. Brooks collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and United Kingdom. Harold E. Brooks's co-authors include Charles A. Doswell, Robert A. Maddox, Jeffrey P. Craven, Mateusz Taszarek, Michael P. Kay, James W. Lee, David J. Stensrud, Vittorio A. Gensini, John T. Allen and Robert J. Trapp and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Harold E. Brooks

123 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Flash Flood Forecasting: An Ingredients-Based Methodology

1996 866 citations Charles A. Doswell, Harold E. Brooks et al. Weather and Forecasting profile →
The spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm and tornado environments from global reanalysis data

2003 502 citations Harold E. Brooks et al. Atmospheric Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harold E. Brooks United States	50	7.9k	7.7k	1.5k	361	247	123	9.1k
Charles A. Doswell United States	49	7.6k 1.0×	7.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	498 1.4×	118 0.5×	133	8.7k
Vassiliki Kotroni Greece	39	2.8k 0.3×	3.3k 0.4×	661 0.5×	485 1.3×	219 0.9×	175	4.6k
Martin J. Wooster United Kingdom	52	3.5k 0.4×	6.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	104 0.3×	142 0.6×	172	9.1k
Ronald E. Stewart Canada	37	3.0k 0.4×	2.9k 0.4×	955 0.7×	127 0.4×	159 0.6×	177	6.4k
David J. Stensrud United States	48	6.7k 0.8×	6.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	131 0.4×	31 0.1×	164	7.5k
Steven M. Quiring United States	41	2.1k 0.3×	3.5k 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	213 0.6×	212 0.9×	133	6.0k
Olivia Martius Switzerland	41	5.4k 0.7×	6.4k 0.8×	383 0.3×	151 0.4×	338 1.4×	190	7.6k
Ricardo García‐Herrera Spain	46	5.3k 0.7×	6.3k 0.8×	758 0.5×	166 0.5×	120 0.5×	198	8.6k
Stanley G. Benjamin United States	41	5.2k 0.7×	4.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	308 0.9×	32 0.1×	97	6.4k
Jennifer E. Kay United States	48	8.1k 1.0×	6.6k 0.9×	233 0.2×	121 0.3×	244 1.0×	117	9.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harold E. Brooks

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Potter, Sally, Brian Mills, Andrea Taylor, et al.. (2025). Research gaps and challenges for impact-based forecasts and warnings: Results of international workshops for High Impact Weather in 2022. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 118. 105234–105234. 3 indexed citations

Pilguj, Natalia, et al.. (2024). Quasi-Linear Convective Systems and Derechos across Europe: Climatology, Accompanying Hazards, and Societal Impacts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(8). E1619–E1643. 5 indexed citations

Romanić, Djordje, Mateusz Taszarek, & Harold E. Brooks. (2022). Convective environments leading to microburst, macroburst and downburst events across the United States. Weather and Climate Extremes. 37. 100474–100474. 24 indexed citations

Taszarek, Mateusz, et al.. (2021). Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 4(1). 100 indexed citations

Taszarek, Mateusz, John T. Allen, Pieter Groenemeijer, et al.. (2020). Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part I: Climatology of Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes. Journal of Climate. 33(23). 10239–10261. 84 indexed citations

Taszarek, Mateusz, John T. Allen, Tomáš Púčik, Kimberly A. Hoogewind, & Harold E. Brooks. (2020). Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes. Journal of Climate. 33(23). 10263–10286. 146 indexed citations

Brooks, Harold E., Charles A. Doswell, Xiaoling Zhang, et al.. (2019). A Century of Progress in Severe Convective Storm Research and Forecasting. 59. 18.1–18.41. 45 indexed citations

Koch, Jennifer, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal Analysis of Near-Miss Violent Tornadoes in the United States. Weather Climate and Society. 11(1). 159–182. 5 indexed citations

Taszarek, Mateusz, et al.. (2018). Climatological Aspects of Convective Parameters over Europe: A Comparison of ERA-Interim and Sounding Data. Journal of Climate. 31(11). 4281–4308. 85 indexed citations

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Malamud, Bruce D., Donald L. Turcotte, & Harold E. Brooks. (2016). Spatial–temporal clustering of tornadoes. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(12). 2823–2834. 2 indexed citations

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Brooks, Harold E.. (2014). Monthly US temperatures and tornado occurrence. 1 indexed citations

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Gensini, Vittorio A., Thomas L. Mote, & Harold E. Brooks. (2013). Severe-Thunderstorm Reanalysis Environments and Collocated Radiosonde Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 53(3). 742–751. 86 indexed citations

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Stensrud, David J., Louis J. Wicker, Ming Xue, et al.. (2012). Progress and challenges with Warn-on-Forecast. Atmospheric Research. 123. 2–16. 173 indexed citations

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Rauhala, Jenni, Harold E. Brooks, & David M. Schultz. (2011). Tornado Climatology of Finland. Monthly Weather Review. 140(5). 1446–1456. 44 indexed citations

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Marsh, Patrick T. & Harold E. Brooks. (2011). Comments on “Tornado Risk Analysis: Is Dixie Alley an Extension of Tornado Alley?”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 93(3). 405–407. 16 indexed citations

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Brooks, Harold E.. (2008). Extreme Weather: Understanding the Science of Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods, Heat Waves, Snow Storms, Global Warming and Other Atmospheric Disturbances. Eos. 89(28). 258–258. 3 indexed citations

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Market, Patrick S., et al.. (2006). The Future of Humans in an Increasingly Automated Forecast Process. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 87(11). 1497–1502. 27 indexed citations

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Brooks, Harold E., David L. Boren, & Dan O’Hair. (2006). Communication of Uncertainty. 3 indexed citations

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Brooks, Harold E.. (2004). Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis. 11th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace and the 22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms. 3 indexed citations

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Brooks, Harold E. & Charles A. Doswell. (2002). Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado from a Historical Perspective. Weather and Forecasting. 17(3). 354–361. 101 indexed citations

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